>> Bettina Pearson wrote:
>> Janet,
>> I'm a bit behind on reading posts (HOW DO YOU ALL KEEP UP?),
>> but my favorite 'detail' video is Chloe Fisher's, "Helping A Mother to
>> Breastfeed: No Finer Investment".   I cue it to 2 sections demonstrating a
>> nutritive and non-nutritive latch.  It breaks the nutritive latch into slow
>> motion segments.  I love the whole video too, about 20 min. long.
>
Gonneke wrote: >This indeed does have these nice slowmotion parts and I use
this video a lot
>myself for training hcp's, but not only for these parts, also to point out how
>*not* to help a mom to take the baby at the breast. What I find a minor
>point in
>this video is the fact that the midwife is latching the baby instead of the
>mother. (BTW the second time the mother does it herself and then the baby'
>latch
>on is better!) I always get the feeling that the helper handling the
>breasts and
>the baby is like teaching someone to ride a bycicle by turning the pedals for
>her.


Agreed, Gonneke. This video has often been criticised here for this very
sequence, and I use it in training for 'how not to' as well : )   It has a
lot of good points, and technically it is fine, but it is not 'mother
centred'  in any way.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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